D.G. Martin

When I learned of the death of Salisbury native and legendary investor Julian Robertson Jr. last...

Sheriff Andy still lives in Mayberry, or does he? Last week’s Sunday’s CBS-TV’s Sunday Morning...

Was “Where the Crawdads Sing” set in North Carolina – as both the book and movie assert – and...

Is the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence fact or fiction? “Meck Dec” is a shorthand term...

When Frank Daniels Jr. died June 30, people lined up across the state to express admiration and...

We have taken down the Silent Sam Civil War monument on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus and the statues...

How did a Salisbury woman beat the powerful forces of Smithfield Foods, Inc. and its hog farming...

In a colorful full-page ad in North Carolina newspapers last week, Smithfield Foods touted its...

North Carolina is blessed with more than its share of great writers. And I am looking over some of...